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Italy's government had refused to allow the migrants off a rescue ship in Sicily for almost a week.

Human rights activist, who was jailed in June, is protesting against judicial arrests and pressure against family and friends Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun another hunger strike in priso...

LIVE UPDATES: U.S. Sen. John McCain died Saturday afternoon. We follow what's happening across Arizona.        

Kelli Ward, a Republican Senate candidate, wrote on Facebook that the McCain's "wanted to have a particular narrative that they hope is negative to me."        

The death of Sen. John McCain on Saturday means that Arizona now has two open Senate seats. McCain announced he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2017, after doctors discovered an aggressive brain tumor called a gl...

A new technique is helping turn dogs at one Kenyan port into super-sniffers.

The British-Iranian mother was not granted an extension to her temporary release, her husband says.

Police in northeastern China have detained the owner of a resort hotel where a fire killed 19 people and injured 23 others. The public security bureau of the city of …

A series of three earthquakes, included one at magnitude 6, have struck western Iran, with state media reporting one person has been killed and some 100 others injured. The U.S. …

"My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!" Trump tweeted.        

Sushi breakfasts for tourists who flock to Tsukiji will be a thing of the past as the city's seafood paradise shifts The thousands of wholesalers who keep Tsukiji fish market running day and night have been at work for s...

The Democratic National Committee passed new rules Saturday that will sideline superdelegates in the presidential selection process -- a radical shift that was pushed by the party's left-leaning Bernie Sanders wing. The ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday accused the United States of being focused "on a psychological war against Iran and its business partners." In his comments to an Iranian state news agency, Zarif s...

Sen. John McCain died exactly nine years after his friend Sen. Ted Kennedy -- and of exactly the same thing. Kennedy, a Democrat, passed away Aug. 25, 2009 at age 77, after a battle with glioblastoma — the same rare ty...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in those areas would be eliminated.

Attempts to discredit victims priests had molested were part of a pattern the Pennsylvania attorney general called 'weaponizing' the Catholic faith.        

Pope Francis should resign for 'sinfulconduct' in covering up sexual abuse allegations against Theodore McCarrick, a retired Vatican diplomat says.        

Proposal aimed at uniting Angela Merkel's party criticised as populist by opposition Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is floating the idea of a new form of compulsory national service in Germany for...

The head of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed Orakzai, also known as Sad Arhabi, and 10 other ISIS fighters were killed Saturday night in an airstrike in Nangarhar province, according to provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogy...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe made an emotional last-ditch appeal to spend more time with her daughter before being taken back to her jail cell in Iran, her husband has said.

The Latest on Europe's response to mass migration (all times local): 3:40 p.m. Germany's interior minister says he is confident of reaching an agreement with Italy for that country to take back migrants who show up at th...

Kenya's president will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday as East Africa's commercial hub emerges from electoral turmoil. President Uhuru Kenyatta is the second African leader to meet with …